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Nissan announces ‘bulletproof’ driver line-up for Le Mans

NISMO ambassador and Super GT racer Michael Krumm will join GT Academy winners and Nismo Athletes Lucas Ordonez and Jann Mardenborough at the Le Mans 24 Hours next month. The three drivers will unite to race a Greaves Motorsport Zytek-Nissan in the LMP2 class. This class has an entry of 22 cars, 15 of which [...]

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A ride in the LEAF NISMO RC with Jann Mardenborough

A WORLD record might have been broken at last weekend’s LEAF owner event (with a little help from us), but that was by no means the only excitement of the day. Being whisked downstairs from the main event, Nissan were kind enough to treat our very own Jon Reay to a ride in the LEAF [...]

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Home and away competition for Nissan

A DOUBLE-HEADER weekend of racing lies ahead for Nissan with the final round of the British GT Championship at Donington Park on Sunday and round six of the FIA World Endurance Championship taking place in Bahrain on Saturday. Jann Mardenborough: The winner takes it all It’s easy to forget that this is Jann Mardenborough’s first [...]

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Dramatic GT showdown ahead at Donington

THE SCENE has been set for a dramatic showdown in the 2012 British GT Championship with a group of cars all in with a shot at the title at the season-closer in two weeks’ time. Last weekend’s race at Silverstone produced a mixed result for many of the title contenders, not least the Nissan GT-R [...]

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Our day with Nissan’s budding racing drivers

WHO is your favourite motorsport driver and why? It might not be too tricky a question for many of us – but in this case, there’s quite a bit of pressure on the young man standing in front of us to supply an interesting answer. The reason? Well, Daniel Glover is among the candidates hoping [...]

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Six of the best hoping to be the next Jann

SIX British and Irish PlayStation racers are hoping to follow in the footsteps of Jann Mardenborough, the first British winner of Nissan’s GT Academy. The six emerged triumphant at the Nissan PlayStation GT Academy National Final, staged at the world-famous Silverstone Circuit. They have kept alive their dreams of being trained to become a real-life [...]

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830,000 people show their driving ambition

ENTRY to the Nissan PlayStation GT Academy 2012 qualifying closed earlier this month after more than 830,000 people from the participating European countries had downloaded and played the online qualifying demo. The demo, based on the hugely popular Gran Turismo5 game for PlayStation3, attracted the most entries from the UK (over 161,000) closely followed by [...]

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A pageant of action-packed power

NISSAN has created an action-packed programme of events for this year’s Cholmondeley Pageant of Power (15-17 June), in Cheshire. Visitors to the show will be able to enter the highly-acclaimed virtual-to-reality Nissan PlayStation GT Academy competition, meet the 2011 GT Academy Champion Jann Mardenborough and take a close look at a range of Nissan’s latest [...]

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